Molecular mechanisms of environmental exposures and human disease

H Wu, CM Eckhardt, AA Baccarelli - Nature reviews genetics, 2023 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of disease risk for common complex disorders is attributable to
environmental exposures and pollutants. An appreciation of how environmental pollutants …

Aging hallmarks and the role of oxidative stress

E Maldonado, S Morales-Pison, F Urbina, A Solari - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Aging is a complex biological process accompanied by a progressive decline in the physical
function of the organism and an increased risk of age-related chronic diseases such as …

DNA methylation profiling: an emerging paradigm for cancer diagnosis

A Papanicolau-Sengos, K Aldape - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Histomorphology has been a mainstay of cancer diagnosis in anatomic pathology for many
years. DNA methylation profiling is an additional emerging tool that will serve as an adjunct …

Targeting epigenetic regulators to overcome drug resistance in cancers

N Wang, T Ma, B Yu - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Drug resistance is mainly responsible for cancer recurrence and poor prognosis. Epigenetic
regulation is a heritable change in gene expressions independent of nucleotide sequence …

The diverse roles of DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

MVC Greenberg, D Bourc'his - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
DNA methylation is of paramount importance for mammalian embryonic development. DNA
methylation has numerous functions: it is implicated in the repression of transposons and …

Epigenetics of colorectal cancer: biomarker and therapeutic potential

G Jung, E Hernández-Illán, L Moreira… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC), a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, evolves as a
result of the stepwise accumulation of a series of genetic and epigenetic alterations in the …

The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer

SG Zhao, WS Chen, H Li, A Foye, M Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although DNA methylation is a key regulator of gene expression, the comprehensive
methylation landscape of metastatic cancer has never been defined. Through whole …

Epigenetic therapy in immune-oncology

PA Jones, H Ohtani, A Chakravarthy… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
DNA methylation inhibitors have become the mainstay for treatment of certain
haematological malignancies. In addition to their abilities to reactivate genes, including …

DNA methylation clocks in aging: categories, causes, and consequences

AE Field, NA Robertson, T Wang, A Havas, T Ideker… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Age-associated changes to the mammalian DNA methylome are well documented and
thought to promote diseases of aging, such as cancer. Recent studies have identified …

Multi-omics approaches for biomarker discovery in early ovarian cancer diagnosis

Y Xiao, M Bi, H Guo, M Li - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is a heterogeneous disease with the highest mortality rate and the
poorest prognosis among gynecological malignancies. Because of the absence of specific …